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Skriven 2005-12-02 09:51:12 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
  Kommentar till text 17470 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Hello
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Hello Björn!

02 Dec 05 11:22, you wrote to me:

 RC>> My apologies for recollecting things incorrectly, but your
 RC>> rememberance of this echo going back to 1989 is inaccurate as
 RC>> well.

 BF>    Apology accepted, and no, I'm not wrong about this echo going back
 BF> to 1989. Well, that depends of course upon how you define "this echo".
 BF> Since long before 1989 we had a FIDONEWS echo, with that very tag,
 BF> here in Sweden (R20). It was a read-only echo, where the Snooze was
 BF> posted, and nothing else. So in a sense you are correct, but in
 BF> another sense I would like to claim that the echo, with the tag
 BF> FIDONEWS is of Swedish origin, and pre-dated the echo you think of
 BF> with almost a decade. :)

So its possible the echo you knew of as FIDONEWS in Sweden/Z2 Backbone, was at
that time was the equivilant of our "NEWSCHAT".

 BF>    And further more, thanks for doing some serious legwork, that
 BF> pointed me in the right direction for a follow-up.

 BF>    The echo you know as FIDONEWS was indeed created by Chris Baker,
 BF> just a week or so after he took over. He was never appointed or
 BF> anything, as far as any records show, he just picked up the dropped
 BF> baton a month after Donald Tees suddenly resigned without as much as a
 BF> notice in his last Snooze. This was July 1996.

 BF>    In the 1328 Snooze issue of 8 July 1996 he wrote about the newly
 BF> created FIDONEWS echo like this:

 BF> From: Christopher Baker
 BF> To: All
 BF> Date: 06 Jul 96  02:22:27
 BF> Subj: Welcome to the FidoNews Echo

 BF> This is the official home of FidoNews discussion in FidoNet hosted and
 BF> Moderated by the FidoNews Editor.

That settles it.

But you didnt answer the other question I posed, which was, does having this
echo or being or not being the moderator, real or imagined, affect your ability
to be the current editor?

 RC>> By the way, do you plan to be editor for life?

 BF>    I sure as hell think not. Only one previous Snooze Editor can claim
 BF> that, and I'm not planning to be the second. Do you have anyone in
 BF> mind, that you think can do the job?

No one that you would approve of.

As far as getting the editions out, you have done a wonderful job, but the
editions dont contain anything because no one is submitting anything.

When you were first appointed to be the editor, which was well before the time
you got on everyones bad side <g>, I thought good, Z2 has the editorship, them
being the largest zone, they will pump new life into the snooze.. As you know,
that didnt happen. Despite old ramblings, the editorship having been mostly in
Z1 and briefly in Z5, no one can say Z2 wasnt sending in articles en masse
because of that, they dont do it now with one of their own being the editor.

I do believe your vocalized opinions, right or wrong, have polarized a fair
number of people against you, your profile is alot higher than prior editors
because of that. Heh maybe you are the FOXNEWS of Fidonet!!!! LOL!!

Ideas:

Change the Snooze to bi-weekly, publish more often if content dictates. Its
boring to see the same empty content with the same re-runs on a weekly basis.

If you do appoint someone to take over, pick someone who is not controversial
but fair. Not everyone on your side of the pond has your opinions or posture.
A smaller profile does help.

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Ross
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